Hi - I've been testing a Riak cluster (of 3 nodes) with an ejabberd messaging cluster in front of it that writes data to the Riak nodes. Whilst load testing the platform (by creating 0.5 million ejabberd users via Tsung), I found that the Riak nodes suddenly crashed. My question is how do we recover from such a situation if it were to occur in production?
To provide further context / details, the leveldb log files storing the data suddenly became too huge, thus making the AWS Riak instances not able to load them in memory anymore. So we get a core dump if 'riak start' is fired on those instances. I had an n_val = 2, and all 3 nodes went down almost simultaneously, so in such a scenario, we cannot even rely on a 2nd copy of the data. One way to of course prevent it in the first place would be to use auto-scaling, but I'm wondering is there a ex post facto / post the event recovery that can be performed in such a scenario? Is it possible to simply copy the leveldb data to a larger memory instance, or to curtail the data further to allow loading in the same instance? Appreciate if you can provide inputs - a tad concerned as to how we could recover from such a situation if it were to happen in production (apart from leveraging auto-scaling as a preventive measure). Thanks!
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